Non-refillable vessel.



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LBARNBsf NON-.REFILLABLE VESSEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS BARNES, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

NON-REFILLABLE VESSEL.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Malen 5, 1907.

Application letl September 2l, 1906. Serial No. 335,605.

To all whom, it mfc/,y con/cern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non- Refillable Vessels; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to non-reiillable vessels; and the invention consists in a vessel, such as a bottle or the like, which is so constructed and equipped with internal parts that it is impossible to refill the bottle when its contents have been discharged, all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional elevation of a bottle comprising my invention with the parts as they appear when the bottle stands on its bottom, and Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fig. l with the bottle and parts inverted. Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the several diaphragme in the bottle and the valve or gate therein. Fig. 4 is an edge view of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail of one of the bands which separate the diaphragme, and Fig. 6 is a cross-section on line 6 6, Fig. 1.

In the manufacture the body B of the vessel, with its neck b, is made complete and with the bottom open. The sides of the body are straight from end to end, and it may be circular or angular in cross-section. Preferably it is circular or round, as herein shown.

The added parts which make the vessel non-reiillable comprise two or more diaphragms 1, 2, and 3, respectively, of disk shape, fitting closely to the wall of the vessel all around and having opening or recesses in staggered relation into which are set valves or gates 4, 5, and 6, respectively. The said openings and valves are preferably square, though they may have other shape, and are pivoted at their opposite edges at 7 in the edges of the recesses in the respective diaphragme. The diaphragme are made in halves, with tongueand -groove or equivalent joint across their middle, and the gates are set transversely of these joints and have beveled edges matching like beveled edges in the said recesses, so as to rest flush with the surfaces of the diaphragme when closed. The said diaphragms are spaced apart by rings C of such depth as to permit the valves to open between them, and a long tube or cylinder D of the nature and service of a follower occupies the wall of the vessel from the lower diaphragm to the bottom of the vessel and holds all the parts above in right working position. y

The lower end of the vessel has an annular enlargement of suflicient size and strength to receive and confine the bottom E. Said bottom is threaded about its edge to screw into a corresponding thread in head 8 of the body, but said bottom is to be irremovable and hermetically sealed, and to this end I provide the rim-shaped head 8 of the body with a series of serrations 9 outside the thread therein and place one or more spring or equivalent pawls l() in recesses in the bottom adapted to engage said serrations and prevent unscrewing. A suitable packing ring l2 or its equivalent is provided between tube D and bottom E.

Two diaphragms will serve my purpose, but three are preferred, and they are alike in construction.

In operation the valves close and open by gravity according to the position of the bottle and the construction and arrangement of the parts is such that it is impossible to place the bottle in any position in which it can be refilled either by gravity or by forcing the liquid therein by means of a pump or the like.

All the valves open toward the mouth of the bottle and are pivoted in the same axial relation.

What I claim isl. A non-refillable vessel having a series of two or more removable diaphragms having openings and suitably spaced apart, and selfclosing valves set into said openings in said di aphragms in staggered relations.

2. A non-refillable vessel having a series of separate diaphragms set apart from each other in the top portion thereof and formed in halves, and valves in said diaphragms supported transversely of the joints between the said halves.

3. A non-refillable vessel having a plurality of independently-removable diaphragms in its upper portion formed each in halves and having recesses in the edges of said halves pivotally-supported valves occupying said recesses and rings separating said diaphragms.

4. A non-relillable vessel having alternate rings and removable diaphragms in its upper IOO IOS

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portion, rings separating said diaphragrns, bearing against said tube, suitable packing valves in staggered relation in said diaintervening the tube and bottom to make a phragrns and a tube extending `between the fluid-tight joint.

lower diaphragm and the bottom of the Vessel In testimony whereof I sign this specificaserving to keep the said rings and diaphragmtion in the presence of tWo Witnesses. in place.

5. A non-refillable bottle having a series of l LOUIS BARNES' separate Valved diaphragms suitably spaced l ,n Witnesses: apart, a tube engaging the loWer diaphragm R. B. MOSER,

1o and a bottom threaded in the vessel and R. A. KETCHAM. 

